Imprint from colophon (R8 verso): Catalogi sanctor[um] per reuere[n]dissimu[m] dominum petrum de natalibus uenetu[m] episcopu[m] equilinu[m] editi opus finit : Vicentiae per henricu[m] de sancto ursio librariu[m] solerti cura i[m]ressu[m] : Augustino Barbadico i[n]clyto uenetiaru[m] Duce. Anno salutis .M. CCCCLXXXXIII .p. die id[us] dece[m]bris

Edited by Antonius Verlus

Signatures: a⁶ b-u⁸ x⁶ y-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [Rum]⁶ A-B⁸ C-O⁶·⁸ P-R⁸ S⁶ (S6=blank).

Median folio; printed in double columns, a4 recto: 57 lines plus headline, 249 (257) x 156 mm; type: 88R; initial space on a3 recto, woodcut initials throughout.

Title page, a1r -- Verlus, Antonius. "Endecasyllabon" [addressed to] the reader, a1r -- Verlus, Antonius. [Letter addressed to] all Christian people, a1v -- Petrus de Natalibus. "Prologus" and "Divisio totius operis", a2r-v, a3r-a4v -- Petrus de Natalibus. Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum, Books 1-12, edited by Antonius Verlus, a6r-R8v, each book preceded by a table of contents, with table for Book 1 on leaf a5r-v -- colophon, R8v -- printer's register and device, R8v -- Petrus de Natalibus [or Antonius Verlus?]. Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum, Addition, S1r-S5r

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum VII, 1047

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, N6

Incunabula short title catalogue, in00006000

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.407.17 FOLIO imperfect: S6 (blank) wanting. Blind impressions from bearer types on S5. Leaf dimensions: 330 x 220 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.407.17 FOLIO: early calligraphic inscription on front pastedown: "M.S. decan[us]" over escutcheon with initials "M.S." all surrounded by full page inscription, dated 1862 and signed "Annotatio Fr[ancisc]i Xav[er]ii Marotte[?] Presbyt 1862." Modern ink stamp on title page: "Abbaye de [Septfons ...?]" Early inscription at head of title page struck out. 19th-century bibliographic inscription on title page. At head of a2: "initiu[m] sapie[ntiae] timor domi[ni]" in early/contemporary red ink. Ownership inscription of Johannes Pluemel in lower margin of a2: "Iste liber est M[a]g[ist]ri Ioannis Pluem[e]l Ingolstaten[sis] Sacre theologie licentiati anno d[omi]ni 1495." Pasted in the lower margin, Pluemel's arms (an escutcheon showing a branch with three flowers over a blue ground above the initials "d.l.a.M.") On leaf S5 recto: "om[n]is [con]su[mm]at[i]o[n]is vidi finem latu[m] mandatu[m] tuu[m] nimis. M. Io. pluem[e]l licent[iatus] f[ss]t." Ca. 19th-century marginalia. Purchased from Maggs in 1987 (Acc.87-179). Former call number Q.493.N19C FOLIO.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.407.17 FOLIO bound in early/contemporary tawed pigskin paneled and tooled in blind over bevelled wooden boards. Brass catch plates. Early manuscript label on paper at head of spine. Medieval manuscript waste hinges and sewing guards. Based on identification of individual tools, this binding possibly from the workshop of Johannes Euring, of Ingolstadt (Einbanddatenbank workshop w000039/Kyriss 154). For further information, see Dennis E. Rhodes, "The Library of Johann Plümel," in Incunabula: Studies in Fifteenth-Century Books Presented to Lotte Hellinga, ed. Martin Davies (London: British Library, 1999), 234.

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